Since the blokes who were actually there on the Kokoda trial actually practiced mateship, which is a level above friendship, more akin to brotherhood,
really. What right does anyone who didn't suffer along side them have to try and change the language?

Calling someone mate is only offensive to the kind of moron that you wouldn't want to hang out with anyway.

PC is so over the top and dominating when it is trotted out like this that it makes me wonder if it was ever really intended to stop people trying to
hurt and belittle others with language.

These tablets belittle no one, except the terminally offended, a group of people that would make the world much better by simply dropping
dead.

Well I'm really not really a conservative (more of a "classical" liberal or centrist) ... so not really my boogeyman. We are lucky so far in the US
that PC are not yet law bindding. But if you look across the pond where they tend to be pore progressivly regressive than we are, there are several
restrictions already on the books that makes hate speech punishable. That's the path I rather not see here in the US.

Well SCOTUS continues to uphold a racists' right to assemble and speak out about their intolerant opinions. Time and again they have upheld
organizations like the KKK or nazis being able to march in towns and distribute their propaganda. So that really isn't an issue.

This is why I say this a conservative created bogeyman. The only people who complain about PC culture offending them is conservative media. There is
no political basis for it and it only takes a modicum of common sense to see that freedom of speech isn't under assault by sjws. It is just a huge
case of persecution complex.

Political Correctness is my sworn enemy because I know it will make us all miserable and under the thumb. We will hardly be able to move or breathe
without offending somebody. We will all be moody and angry all the time. It is ludicrous and actually INSANE.

It is like communism. It will hold us all back and make us conform to something that will become increasingly archaic and truly irrelevant. This is
the true meaning of retarded.

originally posted by: dfnj2015
You would think being Christian would include having consideration for others. Say you say "Merry Christmas" to an atheist and she found it
offensive. Don't you think it would just be nice, considerate, and Christian to say "Happy Holidays" instead. Or, do we just take the low road and
eff em by saying "Merry Christmas" ?

I never understand the outcry against political correctness. I think it is important to take other people's feelings into consideration. I don't
say the eff word around my grandmother because she doesn't like.

Of course, my grandmother used say in her Edith Bunker like voice, "If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your God damn mouth."

See? That's the problem.

Why should I be the one to even bother with someones feelings about Christmas who hates it anyway?

Correct thinking will be rewarded, incorrect thinking will be just as quickly punished. Adding the prefix "Politically" reminds us its censorship,
'political censorship' is straight out of 1984.

ETA:

The idea of censorship always precludes the enforcement of it. Now its words and phrases on the internet, one day it will be 'political correct
action'. You go along to get along now, one day you will have no choice. You actions will be rewarded or punished.

Not everyone can watch this, it does make the point. Scene from the film, Marathon Man; "Is it safe?"

You must understand there are thousands of PC people in the world that gets paid hundreds of thousands to seek out PC offences so they are certainly
not going to kill the golden goose that lays the golden eggs.
What offends one is OK with another, so all PC is another form of censorship. Offences against PC can be spoken, what you read, what you look at, your
actions and even your thoughts.

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